Archive for February 2021
Valentine’s Day Entertainment
We had a double celebration today for Valentine’s Day and also Heather’s birthday! We had a good old sing song and a dance, we even had a wonderful performer to come and perform at the window, it was a great day! We celebrated Valentine’s Day by organising a themed arts and crafts activity. Some of…
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It’s Valentine’s Day.. it’s not the Valentine’s Day we planned, but we will have a big celebration together when we can. Yasemin bought in some roses for all staff working today and for each of the residents. It was lovely to see so many smiles. A huge thank you to our brilliant staff for keeping…
Read MoreValentines Day at Castleford
Today we have celebrated Valentines Day by throwing an afternoon tea party. We went all out with the Valentines theme and indulged on love heart cookies, eton mess, Jammie Dodger cheesecake and our homemade love potion cocktail! Pat said: “I’ve had a magical afternoon, the cheesecake was the best I’ve ever had”. We have enjoyed…
Read MoreThe Year Of The Ox
This year celebrates ‘The Year of the Ox’ in the Chinese calendar. For Chinese New Year, we decorated the home with Chinese dragons and oxen made by Margaret, Beryl and Sandra. They spent the morning cutting out the decorations before piecing them together and don’t you think our oxen look cute?Night Senior, Ranie, spent time…
Read MoreChinese New Year
We were all prepared to celebrate Chinese New Year. The year of the Ox. Chinese for lunch today. On the menu today was, Sweet and Sour Chicken, Chicken Chow Mein, Crispy Seaweed and some mixed hors d’oeuvres and it went down a treat! For dessert we had banana fritters with ice cream and fresh mango.…
Read MoreValentines Preparation
Our residents had a fabulous time making their own cards to give to their loved ones for Valentines Day. We also made some beautiful light up bottles which will go on our tables for our Valentines Lunch this weekend.
Read MorePostcards of Kindness
Postcards of kindness arrived today for the residents from lovely students of St. Edwards’s Catholic First School, Windsor. Thank you for the lovely drawings and messages. They made our residents very happy.
Read MorePreparing for Valentines
We had a craft afternoon full of painting, creating, sticking and making ready to decorate the home for Valentines this weekend!
Read MoreTeamwork
Our game of batting the confetti filled balloon to each other using our hands was fun and it kept us busy using our hand and eye coordination skills – everyone did very well in this popular group activity.
Read MorePancake Day
The residents enjoyed Shrove Tuesday. David and Val tossed their pancakes, while some chose to simply eat theirs.
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